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by smitty1e 7mo ago
> I think having a globally shared buffer state, etc. is an antifeature. Maybe, but I'd like to hear why you think this is such an antifeature for a single-threaded application. Given the extra resources available these days, for ex
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by smitty1e 7mo ago
RSS brought me here. RSS is a component, not the whole system.
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by smitty1e 7mo ago
> See I had forgotten the one golden rule of capitalism. To thrive in capitalism one must be amoral. Now you can be wildly sickeningly successful with morals but you cannot reach that absolute zenith of shareholder value. Either you acce
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by smitty1e 7mo ago
I would submit the judgement to the Iranian people and the surrounding countries under random attack from Iran.
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by smitty1e 7mo ago
I was expecting Type I & II from statistical theory: "Type I error, or a false positive, is the incorrect rejection of a true null hypothesis in statistical hypothesis testing. A type II error, or a false negative, is the incorrect
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by smitty1e 7mo ago
I don't know. Most of my attempts at humor here seem to attract the moderation PETN.
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Emacs Internal #01: Is a Lisp Runtime in C, Not an Editor(thecloudlet.github.io)
2 points by smitty1e 7mo ago|0 comments
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by smitty1e 7mo ago
This Andrew Klavan interview on AI is worth your time, if not an independent submission: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZFhFGpDWGw "Today, I'm speaking with Stephen C. Meyer, Director of The Discovery Institute&
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by smitty1e 8mo ago
Title should note that this is a 2015 post.
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by smitty1e 8mo ago
Then there are the realities of an enterprise context with multiple teams/programs of varying pedigree. TFA is fine for a bounded context. Don't add another abstraction layer Just Because. But past the nicely bounded context, hidi
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by smitty1e 8mo ago
Indeed, there is no shame in being a dirt-simple system that Just Works. Likely is has a good place at the low end. In enterprise mode, you want something like an AWS to hide the pain of those large-scale details that Linux is bringing.
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by smitty1e 8mo ago
Is this fair? Linux is to *BSD as VHS was to Betamax.
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by smitty1e 8mo ago
> “Although I firmly disagree with the Court’s holding today, the decision might not substantially constrain a President’s ability to order tariffs going forward,” Kavanaugh wrote, “because numerous other federal statutes authorize the
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by smitty1e 8mo ago
Shakespeare is a definite barrier.
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by smitty1e 8mo ago
> Most of my past side projects would take me a few minutes or hours to build with Claude Code. Today, they’re not worth talking about. What, were the vibe coded in COBOL? That is: I don't understand why the use of Claude Code itsel
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by smitty1e 8mo ago
Form follows function, friends.
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by smitty1e 8mo ago
> and we don't like change Oh, hogwash. It's not the change as such; rather, lack of control of the change, that causes the blowback. Thus, the overarching question is: "Who drives the bus?"
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by smitty1e 8mo ago
"Climate Change" implies that some sort of "constant climate" is even attainable, irrespective of desirable.
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by smitty1e 8mo ago
In particular, anything more extensive than wrapping Maduro is going to be politically infeasible for Trump with the mid-terms looming.
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by smitty1e 8mo ago
> You don't get to claim you invented it Re-inventing the wheel is completely in order, so long as one makes the wheel more round.
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Fragments of an Adolescent Web(vincent.bernat.ch)
3 points by smitty1e 8mo ago|0 comments
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by smitty1e 8mo ago
Came here to add this very comment. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gall_(author)#Gall's_law
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by smitty1e 8mo ago
Fine. But the broader point is that the customer is the product, not the owner of a purchase.
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by smitty1e 8mo ago
So does this mean that AI will absorb all the cryptocurrency compute when "we" collectively realize that crypto was so much rectal sunshine?
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by smitty1e 8mo ago
I'd estimate that Haskell + AI could reach cuneiform levels of inscrutability.
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by smitty1e 8mo ago
In national politics, one calls for the vote when the outcome has been decided, in order to "put a bow" on matters. Trump can be expected to pull a trigger when the results are similarly "known" (Maduro), and not a momen
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by smitty1e 8mo ago
The John11:35 allusion appears to have escaped everyone. Oh well.
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by smitty1e 8mo ago
Torvalds wept.
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by smitty1e 9mo ago
Well, so: let the red states eat their own rhetoric.
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by smitty1e 9mo ago
> My fear is that many of these states are locked in a bubble of lies, a culture that longs for an imaginary and idealized past that never existed. Speaking of "bubble of lies..."

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